My work often explores jewellery as an interstitial practice. I have an interest in exploring different enactments that allow jewellery to articulate an expansive understanding of an object. My pieces often refer to a universal symbolism and recognition. There are strong references to traditional craft while I constantly examine its classical structures. I tend to stretch and push a material to its limit. It is in this close dialogue with a material, its tolerance and boundaries, that I find a language that speaks to me.

Repetitions and multiplicity are significant for my work. The variations between the details become important creating patterns and rhythms. My aim is to make jewelry where dynamic patterns form some kind of asymmetrical balance. Like many others, I find a lot of inspiration in nature; fish, birds, plants and landscapes. The shapes and patterns appear in my pieces but often in a non-figurative way that gives space for the viewer‘s or wearer’s own interpretations.

I explore form as a poetic material language, where craft, qualities and properties in the surrounding circumstances inspires me. I use silversmithing as a method to explore the material. By using hammer and punches I make quick lines and traces inspired from drawings into silver sheet to create surface and to give shape to physical qualities of the material. The pieces are wearable jewelry and also sculptural objects. I draw from nature, places and landscapes, ripped out of a larger whole. The shapes and surfaces grow with repetition, a moment in movement. I investigate a space between abstract and imagery, form, body and surface.

Jenny Jansson works with wearable art and at the heart of her practice lies a desire to combine the captivating, ornamental qualities of jewellery combined with a critical take of society. Through the processing of precious and non-precious materials, and often with a connection to historical jewellery references, Jenny creates stories through jewellery that hold space. Jenny was educated at HDK-Valand, Academy of Art and Design, in Gothenburg, where she received an MFA in jewellery art in 2023. In addition to her artistic practice, Jenny works as a lecturer in crafts with a focus on jewellery art at HDK-Valand.

The fascination for the human body and the stunning brutality of nature is the foundation for work and I tend to use paper or thin metal sheets as a starting point for my jewellery. I love the possibilities of these foldable materials; the lightness and flexible qualities let me create shapes with a certain organic sharpness. I use scissors or knives as tools since their inevitable directness suits my working method and serves the aesthetics that I’m looking for. I believe that the coloring and the fine lines characterize my jewellery.